Sessions at Lone Star Ruby Conference V about Twitter

Friday 12th August 2011

• Consuming the Twitter Streaming API with Ruby and MongoDB

  by Jeff Linwood

  Want to build your next application off of live Twitter updates? Twitter provides a streaming API that you can filter by username, keyword, or geo-location. Using a couple of great Ruby gems, we can store tweets from the streaming API into MongoDB, a NoSQL store that's perfect for analysis.

  I'll go over the basics of the Twitter API, MongoDB, the mongo and tweetstream ruby gems, and how to bring it all together into a sample application.

  • MongoDB
  • Ruby
  • Twitter
  • Twitter API

  At 1:45pm to 2:30pm, Friday 12th August

  Coverage slide deck